Are yahiko and Nagato the same person?

Are yahiko and Nagato the same person?

Essentially, Yahiko was the face and body of Nagato since he could not move or battle with ease due to his injured legs. After Nagato's death, Konan took both bodies back to Amegakure, giving them a proper burial and a shrine for others to remember them by.

Is Pain's real name Nagato?

Pain grew up an orphan in Amegakure going by the name Nagato, he was trained by Jiraiya. During there training Pain developed the Rinnegan, an eye technique said to be the most powerful of the eye technique. No other being has had the Rinnegan since the Sage of the six Paths.

Why is Yahiko pain or is Nagato pain?

• The only reason his body is moving as Pain is because Nagato himself is controlling it. Nagato is the source of all of the Pain’s movements and abilities. Technically both are Pain. However Nagato is the only reason Pain exists, and he is the only reason Yahiko is able to function as one of the bodies of Pain.

Why did Nagato want to avenge Yahiko's death?

• Nagato got badly injured and damaged during his battle with Hanzo (the same one when Yahiko died). He was unable to move after that. Hanzo was still alive though. Nagato wanted to avenge Yahiko and he also wanted to continue their dream previous dream of peace (although his sense of peace got distorted). So Nagato still had to fight.

Who was Nagato's best friend in his childhood?

• One further constant in Nagato's life was the esteem he placed in his childhood friends. Nagato viewed himself as having inherited Yahiko's will to change the world and kept Yahiko's corpse as his most treasured and powerful Path of Pain. Konan, his partner and childhood friend, remained his most ardent supporter.

How did Nagato bring peace to the Shinobi World?

• Forming Akatsuki alongside his friends (and fellow war orphans) Yahiko and Konan, Nagato dreamed of bringing peace to the violent shinobi world. However, following Yahiko's death, Nagato adopted the alias of Pain ( ペイン, Pein) and, along with Konan, began leading a new Akatsuki; one that would force the world into peace using any means necessary.